crossovers that actually work
All too often, crossovers are poorly executed and/or clunkily fitted together. But every once in a while, they work. They really work. This is a collection of those crossovers.
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Help for Hauntings by Ninjathrowingstork
Fandoms: The Umbrella Academy (TV), The Umbrella Academy (Comics), Brooklyn Nine-Nine (TV)
22 Mar 2019
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When a junkie gets picked up by the 99th precinct, no one expected the wild, skinny man could actually see ghosts. Which, it turns out, is a useful skill to have around a police station.
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None So Blind by prettybirdy979
Fandoms: Daredevil (TV), The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
18 Mar 2016
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They say when you assume you make an ass of you and me.
Matt wishes that the Avenger's assumptions about his seeming inability to read the written word did something as benign as making an ass of him and them. Being called illiterate shouldn't hurt, not when he knows he's not, and it's not like he can tell them the truth.
Not that the truth would make much difference. He's just going to have to grin and bear it.
If he can.
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of things unknown (but longed for still) by aloneintherain for wayfiend
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Spider-Man - All Media Types, Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies)
29 Apr 2020
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Peter Parker can’t walk around with the same daemon as Spider-Man. But she’s going to settle one day, and there’s nothing he can do about it.
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Colored Crimson in My Eyes by DeerstalkerDeathFrisbee
Fandoms: Lucifer (TV), Daredevil (TV)
22 Mar 2016
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“I thought you were raised by nuns!”
“I was raised by nuns."
"And the devil. Your grandfather.”
“Ye-”
“Yes, but we don’t use that word, it makes me feel old.”
“Lucifer, your input was not requested or required.”
“Well then, someone’s being a bit rude.”When Grandma Murdock said the Murdock boys had the devil in their blood, she was being literal. Chloe has a conference in New York City and Lucifer decides to drop in on his favorite relative.
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It's instant, like the click of a camera, a moment out of time captured and preserved. Even if he doesn't know why until now.
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FIGHTERS OF THE GOOD FIGHT by AgnesClementine
Fandom: Supernatural, The Umbrella Academy (TV)
29 Oct 2020
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One unexpected meeting creates a lifelong connection between two broken boys with hearts of gold.
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Bookmarked by mayfriend
15 Jun 2019
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“About, um– I wasn’t going to kiss you. At first.”
Oh.
Diego blinks, drums his fingers on his chest.
“What made you change your mind?” He asks, hesitant as he is because what if he doesn’t like the answer.
I got carried away. Payback. It was the heat of the moment thing. I thought it would be funny. I thought I’d like it but I don’t.
Dean shrugs jerkily, clears his throat, and starts peeling the label of his beer bottle. He mutters something that Diego doesn’t catch. Maybe he was too quiet or maybe Diego didn’t hear him from the sound of his heart beating in his ears.
“What?” He asks.
Dean clears his throat again, “I said I, uh, I saw you.”
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Once upon a time there was a girl and a demon.
The girl’s hair was the color of Dust, a gleaming gold, and with it shining in the wind she lifted her sword, and drove it straight into the heart of the demon that had tried to call her little village its own. The people loved her. They say her soul was a brilliant white dog, a guardian, large as an ox. He grappled with the monster. With his fur a light to drive it back.
And so time turned on. Technology improved. The people lived. A thousand years passed. A kingdom grew, the loyal mutt-souls of the common people protected by the noble lines of knights, bloodhounds and shepherds and retrievers. Happily ever after, right?
Tsht. Yeah. You know, they say only dogs get happy endings.
(A Nimona daemon AU: in which Ballister's daemon changes shape, impossibly, the night of the Queen's murder, and this is of some interest to Nimona.)
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07 Nov 2023
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“Have you ever thought about why everyone is a dog? About why you never see anything else?”
“Daemons are dogs,” Kiran says. Her voice, much quieter than Nimona’s, somehow gets the girl to go entirely silent, her cat-chest heaving. “They can’t be anything else.”
Nimona shrinks down into a pink-and-white feathered bird, her neck-feathers iridescent in the grimy light. “Oh,” the pigeon says, “so you turning into a pigeon was a mistake, then. That never happened?”
“That’s—” Ballister starts, but he’s frozen in place, because it was Kiran, but he remembers how it felt. The way she was illuminated by dying sparks. The way wind tugged at feathers, different than it ever did at fur. The sky, and how they could not see it. She could’ve flown. He didn’t want to leave the ground.
“Different?” Nimona flaps her wings. “Yeah. No.”
It is getting, Ballister thinks, harder to ignore.
Kiran’s paws twitch.
He says, “Gloreth was a dog.”
“Yeah. Uh-huh.” Nimona rolls her eyes, drawing her wings back in close. “So some girl a thousand years ago gets to determine the course of your life for the rest of, what, forever? Boss, think about it. What do dogs have that nobody else does?”
He’s humoring her. That’s all it is. Nimona is—better company than he thought she’d be when he first met her, but he’s not—her. She’s made that obvious enough. He has no idea what she is, but…this is his city. He grew up here. And sure, it has flaws, but…they can be fixed. He was trying to fix them. And he could’ve. He just—if he can get Ambrosius on his side, get rid of the Director, then…
“Loyalty,” Kiran says, lifting her head. Her large eyes stare at Nimona. Pigeons are small. Even Kiran’s bigger than them. “Dogs have loyalty.”
“Unquestioning loyalty.” Nimona shakes her head. “You can’t do this shit with cats.” She flicks into a cat, bunches up her muscles and leaps onto his shoulders, teetering, somewhat. “People hate cats for doing their own things. They shoot ‘em. With a sword!”
“Nimona,” Ballister says, as she climbs atop his head, “I have never in my life seen someone shoot a cat. You don’t even shoot swords.”
“It’s a metaphor, boss.” Nimona flops across his head, her tail twitching, dangling. “You guys aren’t cats because this bullshit doesn’t work if you’re anything else. Birds could fly. Oxen could stampede the place. Don’t get me started with the wild animals. But dogs—dogs are good, aren’t they? They’re just so good. They do what they’re told, and they’re happy the entire time. Who else would you send after monsters?”
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National Service by burntcopper
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia (Movies), Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis, Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Torchwood
18 May 2015
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who else can take all your blood and your curses? by janie_tangerine for outboxed (fallencrest)
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, Game of Thrones (TV), Wild Cards - George R. R. Martin
12 Aug 2014
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where the entirety of Westeros turns into mutants and it’s not good news for most of them.
Also, where Theon’s mission to Pyke is entirely changed by his own mutation and it means both bad and good consequences.
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- Part 1 of mutants in westeros
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- English
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- 15,328
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- 1/1
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01 Jun 2015
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Well, they say he said, looks like out of all the wild cards you could draw, you got off lightly.
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Fantastic Humanity by esama
Fandoms: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Movies), Doctor Who
24 Jan 2017
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Somewhere in Newt's suitcase there is a pocket watch.
Bookmarked by mayfriend
12 Mar 2018
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Four days after Newt had been expelled from Hogwarts, Mother and Father sit him down on the old living room couch and tell him the truth.
Two days after the welcoming feast on his first year at Hogwarts, Theseus pulls him aside in a empty corridor to tell him the truth.
On Mother's birthday when Newt is nine, uncle Will gets terribly drunk and breaks of in middle of tale about hippogriffs to tell him the truth.
Truth is, Newt never really forgot.
He still remembers sitting on the open road somewhere in Wales, weight of something big and heavy to four year old hands in his pocket and the wide open night sky above him. There were so many stars and he thought he knew their names.